Crusade with Me

What is that fire inside you?

The drive to build. The urge to create. The desire to achieve. The anger that demands action. The attraction that pulls you toward another person. The sexual energy that can feel almost impossible to ignore.

Where does it all come from—and what is it for?

In Episode 177 of Crusade With Me, we explore the powerful energies woven into human life: ambition, creativity, anger, attraction, desire, and eros. Are these forces something we should fear and suppress? Something we should simply indulge? Or were they given to us for a purpose?

Maybe the problem isn't that the fire exists.

Maybe the real question is what are you doing with it?

Because fire can warm a home—or burn it down.

Join me as we continue asking the questions worth asking, following wherever the answers lead.

The Truth Is Worth Seeking.

If you could create God, what would He be like?

Would He agree with your politics? Approve of your choices? Dislike the same people you dislike? Would He ever look at something you deeply believe and tell you, “You’re wrong”?

For thousands of years, human beings have tried to understand the divine—from Zeus and Odin to the gods and philosophies of the ancient world. But maybe we never stopped creating gods. We simply gave them new names: money, success, politics, pleasure, identity…and ourselves.

In this episode of Crusade With Me, we follow that question all the way to its answer. Genesis makes a startling claim: we weren't created to make God in our image. We were created in His. And Christianity makes an even greater claim—if you want to know what God is actually like, look at Jesus Christ.

A God who washes feet. Touches outcasts. Eats with sinners. Loves enemies. Confronts hypocrisy. Gives Himself on a Cross—and rises from the dead.

Maybe the question isn't whether God looks enough like us.

Maybe the question is:

Do I look anything like Him?

The Truth is worth seeking. Let’s keep walking.

What does it really mean when someone says, “I’m spiritual, but not religious”?

In Episode 175 of Crusade With Me, Dave and Kat explore one of the fastest-growing ways people describe their relationship with faith—and ask whether spirituality without something outside ourselves to define truth can eventually become a spirituality of our own making.

This isn't an argument for religious labels or institutions. It's a conversation about truth, authority, community, surrender, and the difference between seeking God and creating a god who agrees with us.

Can we be spiritual without being religious? Can religion itself become empty? And perhaps the harder question:

Who gets to define God?

Listen. Think. Question everything.

The Truth is worth seeking.

What if the biggest obstacle standing between you and the truth… is you?

We all like to believe we're open-minded. But once a belief becomes part of our identity, changing our mind can feel like losing part of ourselves. Our brains defend what we already believe. Our tribes reward agreement. And sometimes questioning the accepted story can cost us relationships, reputation, or belonging.

So what happens when the evidence points somewhere we don't want to go?

In Episode 174 of Crusade With Me, we explore confirmation bias, the power of first impressions, cancel culture, tribal thinking, and three words that may be among the hardest to say:

I was wrong.

Because maybe wisdom isn't about never being wrong.

Maybe it's about remaining humble enough to be corrected.

And if the Truth really is worth seeking, we have to be willing to follow it—even when it leads somewhere we didn't expect.

What if you're wrong?

There may be only one way to find out.

Let's keep walking.

Is Something True Even If Nobody Believes It?

If everyone believed something false, would that make it true? And if nobody believed something true, would it suddenly become false?

In Episode 173, Dave and Kat wrestle with the difference between belief and Truth—and the uncomfortable possibility that reality doesn't need our agreement.

Are good and evil real? Does reality have an order? Why are we so good at seeing other people's deception while missing our own?

And perhaps the hardest question of all:

Do we really want the Truth if the Truth tells us we're wrong?

The Truth is worth seeking.

Let's keep picking them up and setting them down.

And always "Crusade With Me?"

Episode 172 – Reality Always Sends the Bill

Every choice has a consequence—even the ones we think no one will ever see.

In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore one of life's simplest and most challenging truths: reality always keeps the score. Our habits, relationships, character, and faith are all shaped by the small decisions we make every day.

Why do some choices lead to peace while others lead to regret? What if God's commands aren't arbitrary rules, but the way reality itself was designed to work? And where does grace fit when we've already made a mess of things?

Join us as we examine the relationship between consequence, truth, and redemption, and discover the hope found in Christ—the One who paid our greatest debt and calls us to a better way of living.

Reality always sends the bill. The question is: what are we investing in today?

What if accountability isn't punishment...

What if it's freedom?

This week, Dave and Kathy returned home from a week at the Jasper County Fair expecting to remember horses, ribbons, and competition. Instead, they found themselves watching something far more revealing—human nature.

Children accepted responsibility with remarkable humility. Adults often searched for someone else to blame.

Why is it so difficult to simply say, "I was wrong?"

In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we explore why accountability has become one of the rarest virtues in modern life, and why Scripture presents it not as a burden, but as one of God's greatest gifts. Along the way, we'll discover what horses, children, ancient wisdom, and the words of Christ all have in common.

Maybe every excuse keeps us stuck.

Maybe every honest confession sets us free.

Join us as we ask another timeless question...

Could the path to real freedom begin with taking responsibility for our own lives?

Slow down. Think deeply. Keep walking... and Crusade With Me.

For six episodes we've been asking difficult questions.

Why do we feel like there has to be more than this?

Why can't we sit still?

Why has wonder faded?

Why are we more connected than ever, yet increasingly alone?

Why won't our minds ever stop talking?

What did ancient wisdom know that we've forgotten?

Now we arrive where King Solomon finally arrived after chasing pleasure, success, wealth, wisdom, work, and every earthly pursuit imaginable.

"The conclusion, when everything has been heard, is this: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person." — Ecclesiastes 12:13

In this concluding episode of the Attention series, we follow Solomon's final words to the One who gives life its meaning. The search for purpose doesn't end with philosophy. It doesn't end with self-improvement. It doesn't even end with wisdom itself.

It ends with Christ.

Only in Him do our restless hearts find rest, our wandering minds find peace, and our endless search finally find its home.

This isn't simply the end of a series.

It's an invitation to begin the journey that truly matters.

For centuries, humanity searched for wisdom not because life was easy—but because it wasn't.

Today we have more information than any generation in history, yet anxiety, distraction, loneliness, and exhaustion continue to rise. We know more... but are we actually becoming wiser?

In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we step away from the endless noise of modern life and listen to voices that have endured for thousands of years. From King Solomon and Ecclesiastes to the wisdom of the early Church, we explore truths that technology cannot replace and progress cannot improve.

What if the life you're searching for isn't found in something new—but in something we've forgotten?

If you've ever wondered why life feels rushed, scattered, and strangely empty despite having more than ever before, this conversation is for you.

Because ancient wisdom wasn't trying to make life easier.

It was trying to teach us how to truly live.

Have you ever noticed that your mind almost never becomes quiet?

It replays yesterday. It worries about tomorrow. It imagines conversations that never happen. And somehow, in all that noise, we mistake every thought for the truth.

In this episode of Crusade With Me!, we journey inward to explore one of life's greatest battles—the conversation happening inside our own minds.

Together we'll explore:

• Why our thoughts seem to run endlessly. • Why attention follows whatever we repeatedly think about. • What ancient wisdom teaches about stillness, silence, and clarity. • How to stop believing every thought that enters your mind. • And how practicing attention can lead us toward genuine peace.

The goal isn't to silence your mind.

It's to become wise enough to choose which thoughts deserve your attention.

Because between every thought... there is a choice.

And perhaps that's where wisdom has been waiting all along.

Join me as the Attention Series continues and discover why peace isn't something we find...

It's something we practice.

Attention isn't just what you give. It's the life you build. Continue the journey next episode as we explore What Ancient Wisdom Knows That Modern Life Forgot.